Kosteckis uncertain on Gold Coast start after Bathurst crash

The small Kostecki Brothers Racing team is uncertain about its chances of rebuilding its car in time for the Gold Coast 600 after a sizeable crash at Mount Panorama.

KBR’s fraught weekend came to an end on Lap 113 of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 when Jake Kostecki glanced the wall on driver’s right as he turned in for the climb to Reid Park.

That contact cannoned the Boost Mobile-backed ZB Commodore into the wall on the opposite side, before it sustained a more jarring hit, again on its left-hand side, when it spun across the track.

The family-run team has a permanent workshop staff of four, including drivers Jake and Brodie Kostecki, and while it was to have contested all three events of the Pirtek Enduro Cup as a wildcard entry, the damage could see it sidelined until November’s Penrite Oil Sandown 500.

“I’m not too sure,” Jake Kostecki told Speedcafe.com when asked if the team would be ready for the Vodafone Gold Coast 600.

“It sort of depends on the damage. Hopefully we can get it done but we’ll definitely be at Sandown, that’s for sure.

“The birdcage may have a little crack in it, it may not, so we’re just going to see in the workshop in the next couple days, and strip it all down and go again.”

The crash was just the latest of dramas for cousins Brodie and Jake Kostecki in their Virgin Australia Supercars Championship debuts.